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minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·4 months agoI’d expect Galadriel to be very much in the “The only good orc is a dead orc” camp. That’s based purely on vibes, I don’t recall anything about it in the LOTR books and I never could finish The Silmarillion.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·4 months agoAll elves are in that camp, and within the bounds of LotR I think they’re right? It’s definitely a setting with objective, and cosmic, Good and Evil.
minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoYes, because each time an elf looks upon an orc, they see a mangled, corrupted version of themselves, with no hope of reversing the corruption.
I’d expect Galadriel to be very much in the “The only good orc is a dead orc” camp. That’s based purely on vibes, I don’t recall anything about it in the LOTR books and I never could finish The Silmarillion.
All elves are in that camp, and within the bounds of LotR I think they’re right? It’s definitely a setting with objective, and cosmic, Good and Evil.
Yes, because each time an elf looks upon an orc, they see a mangled, corrupted version of themselves, with no hope of reversing the corruption.